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    Lipstick by G'Sell, Eileen;

    Series: Object Lessons;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 16 April 2026
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9798765135587
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages200 pages
    • Size 165.1x120.65 mm
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 36 bw illus
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    Short description:

    Examines the messy, manifold meanings of beauty's most popular tool of artifice.

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    Long description:

    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

    From Revlon to Glossier, from Marilyn to Gaga, lipstick is as shape-shifting and unwieldy as femininity itself.

    Who wears lipstick today - as a matter of routine? And for those who do, is it out of obligation to a strict feminine standard, or some other reason entirely? Lipstick reconsiders the beauty world's most conspicuous - and contentious - tool of artifice. Tossing expired ideas about femininity like so many tubes of melting wax, Lipstick explores how self-adornment can be a source of play, pleasure, and transformation, as well as how lipstick can knock gender norms off balance.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    1. Painted Ladies and Tainted Men
    Lipstick Story #1: Margaret
    2. Painted Ladies and Painted Men
    Sidebar #1: The Pesky Endurance of Public High School Lipstick Bans
    Lipstick Story #2: Maurice
    3. Lipstick Feminism and Sticky Pleasures
    Sidebar #2: The Myth of the Red-Lipped Suffragette
    Lipstick Story #3: Shaela
    4. Whitewashed Beauty, Appropriation, and Lipstick Legacies
    Sidebar #3: Four Decades of Lipstick Lyrics and Music Videos
    Lipstick Story #4: Dorothea
    5. A Femme-Friendlier Future?

    Acknowledgments
    Notes
    Index

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